Joomla 1.6 beta 8 released

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 7 release on August 9, the Joomla Bug Squad have fixed approximately 90 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

See the CHANGELOG below included in the download for details of what has been changed in this release.

What's next?

This is the eighth in the series of continuous beta releases. Beta 9 will be released on September 6, 2010.

Joomla 1.6 beta 8 changelog

1.6.0 Beta8 Release [23-Aug-2010]

23-Aug-2010 Ian MacLennan # [#21251] Hathor RTL CSS fixes # [#21449] Add ACL Create, Edit, & Edit State checks to Menu Manager # [#21540] pre-check=0, post-check=0 should not be added to Cache-Control HTTP header # [#21561] Display/Function of ordering arrows when sorted in descending order # [#21588] Readonly calendar field pops up # [#21613] Add an id of the same value for every form that only has a name # [#21614] Make administrator login work with the XML serialization and bring the form closer to XHTML strict # [#21767] Make pagebreak well formed # [#21795] Articles - Newsflash and Banners: Invalid argument # [#21817] JDocumentHTML::mergeHeadData() inappropriate use of array_unique # [#21833] Point in time to render the submenu of components # [#21838] TODO Raise error for missing category or parent category # [#21866] Notice in template style save method # [#21899] Bug in utf8_stristr() # [#21962] Add display of missing edit icons # [#21967] Language files are not loaded for a 3pd extension in com_categories if a 'section' is specified # [#21986] Use atom:link on rss feeds to identify the feeds url # [#22010] Apply 22005 changes to Hathor com_categories override

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